Nokia Gets Cozy With Eclipse Foundation

Linux Insider reports that Nokia this week "joined the Eclipse Foundation as a "strategic developer" and board member" and will support the "Eclipse open-source community's work by contributing software and developers to a proposed new Eclipse project."

Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg said, "The name of the game is developers, developers and developers. The more you can get people on to your platform, the more attractive the platform then looks to end users that have to make deployment decisions."

"It's too early to tell if this will pay off for Nokia, but I think we'll see a lot of efforts from Nokia to evangelize the marketplace so it does happen," Gartenberg added.